Connect the BizPrint plugin for WooCommerce to your BizPrint account

This page shows you how to connect the BizPrint plugin for WooCommerce to your BizPrint account, so your store can send orders to your printers. It is for WooCommerce store owners and the people who set up printing for them, and it works the same whether your printers are connected to the BizPrint desktop app or the BizPrint Android app.

In WordPress, the plugin’s settings appear as Print Manager under the WooCommerce menu.

Before you start

• Install the BizPrint plugin for WooCommerce.
• Create a BizPrint application for your WooCommerce store in the BizPrint dashboard. The application has the keys that you enter in WordPress on this page.
• Sign in to WordPress as an administrator, or with a user role that has access to Print Manager.

Caution

The Secret Key works like a password. It is one of the application’s two keys. Never email it, post it in a chat, or share it with anyone who does not need it. Copy it straight from the dashboard into WordPress.

Enter your application’s keys in WordPress

Keep two browser tabs open: one with the BizPrint dashboard and one with WordPress.

1. Sign in to the BizPrint dashboard.
2. Click Applications in the menu.
3. Click your store’s application in the My Applications list. On a phone, tap the tick or cross icon in its row instead, because tapping elsewhere in the row does not open it. The application page shows its Public Key and Secret Key, each with a copy button.
4. Go to WooCommerce > Print Manager in WordPress, in the other tab.
5. Open the Application tab. The keys go in the Application API Keys section.
6. Click the copy button next to the Public Key in the dashboard.
7. Paste it into the Public Key field in WordPress.
8. Click the copy button next to the Secret Key in the dashboard.
9. Paste it into the Secret Key field in WordPress.
10. Select REST API next to API Version, if it is not already selected. It is the recommended choice.
11. Click Save Changes.

After you save, API Version shows REST API as plain text, and the “You’re almost there” setup notice no longer appears in WordPress.

If API Version shows Legacy API with a Migrate to REST API button, your store uses the older connection. See Move the BizPrint plugin for WooCommerce from the Legacy API to the REST API.

Connect and test the webhook

The webhook lets BizPrint send updates about your print jobs back to your store. Testing it is also a quick way to confirm that the keys you saved in WordPress match your application. Do these steps after you have saved the keys.

1. Click inside the Webhook Url field on the Application tab in WordPress. The plugin copies your store’s webhook address and shows “Copied”.
2. Go back to your application’s page in the BizPrint dashboard.
3. Click in the Webhook URL field.
4. Delete anything that is already in it.
5. Paste the address you copied.
6. Click Update next to the field.
7. Click Perform test connection, under Webhook Info.

If the connection works, the dashboard shows Successfully connected with webhook server.

If it shows “Error connection to webhook server.”, check that you pasted the whole address from the Webhook Url field and that you clicked Save Changes in WordPress after you entered the keys. Then see BizPrint webhook test connection fails.

Check that your printers are visible

When the keys are saved, the plugin can see the printers of every station in your account.

1. Open the Printers tab in Print Manager.
2. Click Add new.
3. Look at the Printers box. Each printer is listed as the station name, the printer name, and its status in brackets.

If the Printers box is empty, check that your station is connected and shows its printers in the dashboard, and that you copied both keys from the right application. See A printer does not appear in BizPrint.

You are now ready to create a printer location, which tells the plugin which printers and which template to use. See Create a printer location in the BizPrint plugin for WooCommerce.

Related pages

• Create a printer location in the BizPrint plugin for WooCommerce
• Turn on automatic order printing in the BizPrint plugin for WooCommerce
• Test the webhook connection for a BizPrint application
• BizPrint glossary

Need help? Contact BizPrint support at https://getbizprint.com/support/.